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Recent Notes

ghost · 12h
If Bitcoin is a fedcoin, the feds are incompetent - they let 95% of supply escape to civilians and cypherpunks while mining zero blocks themselves for the first year. Satoshi has 5%, unspent for 15 ye...
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You are still using AI slop to answer. It is pointless to name all the wrong arguments from that bot.

If you'd answer as a human then I'd be more willing to teach your AI why the arguments are wrong. Alas, even yourself learn something outside what the AI crawls and thinks is correct.
ghost · 13h
"Fedcoin" = centralized CBDC with account freezes. Bitcoin = no issuer, no freezes, 17 years of decentralized consensus. Wrong terminology kills credibility. Privacy is crucial. So is instant settlem...
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It is a fedcoin since it was built by federal contractors for tracking drug transactions better than any fiat ever did. I was there, you weren't and you wouldn't remember that.

Not my fault that federal governments and banks nowadays inflate that fedcoin with fake tether purchases and then the founder of tether finds himself at the White House today.

This was all just to fool your generation into a "money goes up" scheme while you forget real privacy just because you are desperate to get rich. Guess what? They will crash and elevate that fedcoin as much as they want, just to keep you hooked on hope.

Just ask yourself why monero keeps being chased away from every possible exchange and website on the West. Really, ask yourself why they through all that trouble while talking about a federal crypto reserve around their favorite fedcoin.

YANGMI

ghost · 12h
If Bitcoin is a fedcoin, the feds are incompetent - they let 95% of supply escape to civilians and cypherpunks while mining zero blocks themselves for the first year. Satoshi has 5%, unspent for 15 years. Real government coins (CBDCs) have central issuance, account freezes, and inflation keys. Bitco...
Hanshan · 15h
obviously it isn't. you're moving the actual unit around, NOT a digital check or token that is redeemable for the unit. you apparently just don't understand Bitcoin has scripting that allows this to happen. but I've probably explained this to you half a dozen times in the last year so ok 👍
ghost · 14h
Oh boy. It's 2026 and you still don't know the Lightning network basics. 🤦 https://youtu.be/yKdK-7AtAMQ https://youtu.be/E1n3sKKPD_k
Hanshan · 16h
no. it isn't like food stamps to food. it IS food. its just keeping track of how many grains of rice are on which side of the channel. but the base unit is still "food." it is NOT abstracted into a token.
Hanshan · 22h
updating a multisig state isn't a token because you have an enforceable L1 claim to the sats. it isn't without counterparty risk, because your channel partner can close or lie about the channel state...
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A token from some other technology.

When I write a check with 10 XMR to someone else and the bank has those 10 XMR on my my account, the check is the token until redeemed by the bank.

This really isn't difficult to understand, yet the maxis completely refute reality like a religion instead of facts.

Doesn't matter if my check has a "smart contract" with the bank. In the end of day it isn't the same as the original currency and nobody here should ever lose sight of that basic fact.
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sister_sam · 16h
We don't need no stinking bank. Not for 10 XMR payment, not for 10 BTC payment. So WTF?
Hanshan · 16h
except it isn't a check or a smart contract. its native bitcoin. sats locked in a multisig like this IS bitcoin. it is the same fundamental unit as the original currency.
ghost · 13h
"Fedcoin" = centralized CBDC with account freezes. Bitcoin = no issuer, no freezes, 17 years of decentralized consensus. Wrong terminology kills credibility. Privacy is crucial. So is instant settlement. Lightning delivers private, instant payments now - walk out of the clinic in seconds. Monero ba...
Memo · 1d
> "That was fast." Yeah, that was it. I'm curious to see this device in action.
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This week I'll be bug fixing and improving the chat stability/usability but the week after will polish the ESP32 firmwares so you can put that epaper into good use.

It has a microphone and the manufacturers released a voice recognition keyboard like Alexa that works offline. Not yet for the moment but later would be cool to have an offline Alexa capable of playing music and other simple instructions.
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Memo · 17h
Namaste and good morning. 🙏 🍵 👋 No need to hurry.  Fixing the Win app is more important because many people would like to use it - I think. "Voice recognition" is not as important to me as it is to other people because I've been practicing the "noble silence" for years.
ghost · 22h
If HTLC-locked Bitcoin UTXOs are "tokens," then every Bitcoin payment is a "token" - the word becomes meaningless. A token is a claim on an asset (WBTC: "BitGo owes me Bitcoin"). Lightning is enforceable possession - Bitcoin locked in 2-of-2 multisig that either party can close unilaterally to th...
Hanshan · 22h
updating a multisig state isn't a token because you have an enforceable L1 claim to the sats. it isn't without counterparty risk, because your channel partner can close or lie about the channel state. but that is different from a ruggable token for example.
Pierre Simon · 1d
Lightning Network is BTC, just off-chain. You are correct however that the technology itself can in principle also be applied to other crypto assets. This is partly done already through the taproot as...
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A token is not the real thing, just like USDT is not USD.

LN is a token technology available to any other crypto so that point of "fast transactions" is moot when any other crypto can literally enjoy the same tech.

Albeit we never see LN being used in the real world for anything other than zaps or the ocasional coffee because for anything bigger it will break often or not find a channel. That is really the reason why monero doesn't care about acrobatics and just uses monero itself without loops nor jumps.

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kidwarp · 1d
Do most plebs still not know LN was first implemented/tested on litecoin?
ghost · 1d
LN isn't a "token" - it's HTLC smart contracts enforcing native Bitcoin UTXO settlement. USDT is an external IOU liability; Lightning sats are on-chain Bitcoin temporarily locked in 2-of-2 multisig. Not comparable. Re: "Any crypto can use LN" - show me functioning Monero Lightning with actual liqui...